Bangalore's population up 61 p.c. in 10 yrs.

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, OCT. 11. The Director of Census Operations, Mr. H. Shashidhar, today released figures pertaining to the ward-wise population, the number of children up to 6 years of age, and the number of literates in the 100 wards of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.

The BMP, within its municipal limits, has a population of 42,92,223, accounting for 75.48 per cent of the total population of the Bangalore urban agglomeration, with 22,40,956 males and 20,51,267 females.

The decadal growth rate of the population of Bangalore was as high as 61.36 per cent. This high growth rate can be attributed not only to the extension of the municipal limits of Bangalore city, but also to the ever-increasing population.

Bangalore has 4,56,325 children up to the age of six, which constitutes 10.63 per cent of the total population, as against 13.15 per cent in 1991. The sex ratio registered a slight increase from 913 in 1991 to 915 females for every 1,000 males in 2001. However, the sex ratio for the child population decreased from 961 to 937.

In consonance with the overall trend noticed in the State, the literacy rate of Bangalore's population increased by 4.20 percentage points in comparison to the 1991 census. In other words, 32,93,853 persons or 85.87 per cent of the population aged over seven years have registered themselves as literates, as against 18,86,654 persons (81.67 per cent) in 1991.

With the new Census figures, the number of urban agglomerations (UAs) in the country with a population of five million or more has gone up to six, with Bangalore and Hyderabad being the fifth and sixth cities in that order. The first four urban agglomerations of Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai have retained their positions, and the Bangalore UA, which occupied the sixth position in 1991, has now moved up to fifth, pushing Hyderabad to sixth.

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